webwarrior

Any parser combinator library. Many of them come with toy examples like JSON and simple arithmetic expression parser.

In Pharo (modern Smalltalk implementation) you can get some info from VM and JIT.

Someone is already working on type inference using VM caches.

See http://forum.world.st/parameters-of-the-virtual-machine-td48...

Procedural content generation in computer games.

244 pages? Modern car user manulas are often thicker.

But it would be a good alternative to bash one-liners.

I think parent meant using Mercurial or other DVCS that doesn't have such silly thing as "history rewriting". Leave that to politicians :-)

The web page is confusing. What looks exactly like search field, is in fact an e-mail address field. And when you enter something that can't be an email, no error is shown.

That's not the first service of such kind: see http://natribu.org/en/ (lacks an API however :-)

Didn't get the "engineering major" part. Why he thought that 9 is prime?

Security through obscurity?